In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" provides an in-depth account of this momentous era. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end?
Gordon challenges the view that economic growth can or will continue unabated, and he demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 can't be repeated. He contends that the nation's productivity growth, which has already slowed to a crawl, will be further held back by the vexing headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government. Gordon warns that the younger generation may be the first in American history that fails to exceed their parents' standard of living, and that rather than depend on the great advances of the past, we must find new solutions to overcome the challenges facing us.
A critical voice in the debates over economic stagnation, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
Автор: Ferro, Marc Название: Great war 1914-1918 ISBN: 0415267358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415267359 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 16320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A landmark history of the war that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism and gives due weight to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict.
Название: The Cold War and the United States Information Agency ISBN: 0521142830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521142830 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 38010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides an exhaustive account of the United States Information Agency - an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War.
Автор: Peri Alexis Название: The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad ISBN: 0674971558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674971554 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 28460.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The German blockade of Leningrad lasted 872 days and cost almost a million civilian lives-one of the longest, deadliest sieges in modern history. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic, intimate story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them.
Автор: Strachan Название: The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War ne pb ISBN: 0199663386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199663385 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17610.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A team of some of the world`s most distinguished First World War historians chart the causes, course, and profound political and human consequences of a conflict that changed the world
Автор: Webb Mike Название: From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-Hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 ISBN: 1851243933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851243938 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 10560.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be `the safest place`? These fascinating contemporary papers paint a highly personal and immediate picture of the war as it happened.
Автор: WEINER, AMIR Название: Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution ISBN: 0691095434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691095431 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 52800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Reconceptualizes the historical experience of the Soviet Union from a perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, this book situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system.
Автор: BROOKS, JEFFREY Название: Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from the Revolution to the Cold War ISBN: 0691088675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691088679 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture. This work explores the close relationship between language and the implementation of the Stalinist-Leninist program.
Автор: JOLLUCK, KATHERINE R Название: Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union During World War II ISBN: 082295950X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822959502 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Katherine Jolluck tells the story of thousands of Polish women exiled to the Soviet Union in 1939-41, and examines the ways in which their efforts to maintain their identities as respectable women and patriotic Poles helped them survive.
Автор: McMeekin Sean Название: Russian Origins of the First World War ISBN: 0674062108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674062108 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 24230.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Horn Название: The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II ISBN: 1107016363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107016361 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 103490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer military vehicles than they were capable of as they claimed after the war? This book offers a fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conflicting demands of French, German and American authorities to thrive during the war.
Автор: Ehlert Hans, Epkenhans Michael, Gross Gerhard P. Название: The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I ISBN: 0813147468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813147468 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 66880.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "With the creation of the Franco-Russian Alliance and the failure of the Reinsurance Treaty in the late nineteenth century, Germany needed a strategy for fighting a two-front war. In response, Field Marshal Count Alfred von Schlieffen produced a study that represented the apex of modern military planning. His Memorandum for a War against France, which incorporated a mechanized cavalry as well as new technologies in weaponry, advocated that Germany concentrate its field army to the west and annihilate the French army within a few weeks. For generations, historians have considered Schlieffen`s writings to be the foundation of Germany`s military strategy in World War I and have hotly debated the reasons why the plan, as executed, failed. In this important volume, international scholars reassess Schlieffen`s work for the first time in decades, offering new insights into the renowned general`s impact not only on World War I but also on nearly a century of military historiography. The contributors draw on newly available source materials from European and Russian archives to demonstrate both the significance of the Schlieffen Plan and its deficiencies. They examine the operational planning of relevant European states and provide a broad, comparative historical context that other studies lack. Featuring fold-out maps and abstracts of the original German deployment plans as they evolved from 1893 to 1914, this rigorous reassessment vividly illustrates how failures in statecraft as well as military planning led to the tragedy of the First World War"--
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